more with tim scott who is at the white house today. first to former pollster, pat goodell. what do you make of the numbers. >> they're historic. what we have going on now is a pox on all your houses. republicans have taken a big hit but actually it's all o washington. it's a sense dysfunction, i have numbers that are higher than that. people would get rid of everyone, including they're own congressman if they had the option. this week gallup had a poll showing that a third of americans said the number one issue -- volunteered themselves -- doubling from last month -- a third of them said the biggest problem is government dysfunction, bad government, what have you. that's the highest in history. today, what is interesting, the americans have the lowest of one-party government. this is opening the door for something else. we're at a very historic -- >> do you think this is the new normal, just the way people feel about this? >> two years ago i said the government operated without the consent of the american people, the very basis of the american revolution, we were at a pre r

that was my challenge to mike leigh of utah, dan coates of indian and rising star tim scott of southhat was all at the jack kemp foundation dinner and they all respond to my challenge next up on kudlow. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient pyramids were actually a mistake? uh-oh. geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know. >>> i had the the great honor this week to host a dinner in honor of my friend the late, great jack kemp, a mentor of mine. it gave me the chance to sit down with some leaders of the republican party and we played my interview last night with paul ryan. i also spoke with gop senator, mike leigh of utah, tim scott of south carolina and dan coates of indiana. we talked budgets and taxes and obama care and how these issues could impact the future of the gop. here's a sample of what they told me. >> we have been handed an absolute gift, and that is obama care. this thing is imploding before our very eyes. we need to unite together on a common message and we did have a difference u

the event will take place in washington dc with john boehner and tim scott. at 7:30erage begins p.m. eastern on c-span 3. >> there is over 100 wireless carriers in the united states. we represent from sprint, t- mobile all the way down to the smallest careers of the united states. it may not be your normal household names but in the area that they serve, they are important to the community. they are community-based and small businesses. we have 100 carriers. some outside the united states. we also service almost 200 associate members. that is small businesses that make up the ecosystem that supports wireless carriers. >> the future of small wireless carriers monday night on the communicators at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. former officials with the pentagon talked about the effect of budget cuts on the role of the was military in the world. this is part of a conference hosted by the foreign policy initiative. it is about an hour. >> there should be a natural continuation of the themes that were highlighted in the last conversation. we are joined by people w

the ceremony will include remarks by john boehner and south carolina senator tim scott five at 7:30 easternf bess wallace and harry truman began here at her home in independence, missouri. >> when my grandfather visited independents, 26 miles from where he lived at the time, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house or his aunt and two cousins lived. one afternoon he was over there with his cousins, the family, and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great grandmother had given her a cake and she had cleaned the cake plate and was asking if anybody would take it back over. my grandfather moved with what my mother once described as something once described as the speed of light and grabbed the plate and ran over here and rang the bell on the front door in the hopes that my grandmother would answer the door, and she did. she invited him in and that is the beginning of the formal courtship in 1910. >> continuing the series on first ladies, live at 9:00 eastern on c-span >> a discussion now on the earned income tax credit. a recent report from the treasury department director ge

ceremony will take place in washington dc with house speaker john boehner and south carolina senator tim scottrandfather visited independence, missouri, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house. one afternoon he was there with his cousins and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great- grandmother magic gates wallace had given her. she had cleaned the cake plate and asked if anyone would take it over. moved and grabbed the cake plate and ran over here and rang the bell on the front door in the hope that my grandmother would answer the door and she did. she invited him in and that is the beginning of their formal courtship in 1910. >> bess truman, as we continue our series on first ladies. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," filmmaker jonathan goodman levitt discusses his latest documentary film titled "follow the leader." >> jonathan goodman levitt, documentarian -- did you know when you studied psychology and got a masters in social psychology, that you wanted to go into this kind of work? >> i did not know initially, but i knew at the end of my time at stanford that i did not want to be

joining us tim scott. mr. scott, welcome to the show. first time. we appreciate it very much.ave said that we're not going to get the debt ceiling increased properly until we end the shutdown of the government. until we reopen the government. some people have come on the show tonight and said that by monday, we could reopen the government and end the shutdown. where do you come out on all that? >> i think it's obvious that the negotiators at the table really are the house majority republicans, the senate majority democrats have to get to the same table. the president will have to sign off on a deal. i think there is some reason to be optimistic that that will happen. no question that today's announcement from speaker boehner about the six-week debt court of appeal sag different conversation, be the same path forward. the real question we should ask ourselves as americans and as taxpayers are we dealing with the underlying problem that continues to push up the need for a credit card increase? that debt ceiling is an increase only reflects the fact that we spent more money than

once he is sworn in he will be the first african-american senator in new jersey's history alongside tim scottrom south carolina, senator elect booker will be the second african-american currently serving in the united states senate. now steve lonegan, of course he had the misfortune of being a tea party republican at a time in our nation's political history when tea party republicans were busy elsewhere in the country making themselves less popular than paper cuts or tripping. but even without that baggage it's fair to say that steve lonegan would have been a long shot in this lace no matter what else is going on. mr. booker is popular and ran a good race. and this is new jersey which is a blue state. and number three, steve lonegan is steve lonegan. and to get a sense of what i mean, consider this moment from when mr. lonegan spoke to his supporters tonight after he learned he lost the race to cory booker. this is one of the strangest sound bites i have ever heard. >> moments ago i called senator booker to congratulate him on his women and as we should, wish him the best in serving the peopl

once he is sworn in he will be the first african-american senator in new jersey's history alongside tim scottom south carolina, senator elect booker will be the second african-american currently serving in the united states senate. now steve lonegan, of course he had the misfortune of being a tea party republican at a time in our nation's political history when tea party republicans were busy elsewhere in the country making themselves less popular than paper cuts or tripping. but even without that baggage it's fair to say that steve lonegan would have been a long shot in this race no matter what else is going on. mr. booker is popular and ran a good race. and this is new jersey which is a blue state. and number three, steve lonegan is steve lonegan. and to get a sense of what i mean, consider this moment from when mr. lonegan spoke to his supporters tonight after he learned he lost the race to cory booker. this is one of the strangest sound bites i have ever heard. >> moments ago i called senator booker to congratulate him on his win and as we should, wish him the best in serving the people o

. >> tim scott. >> tim scott is correct. double her points. mj takes an early lead. what may be the single biggest penalty in u.s. history, which former big city. >> mj. >> kwame kilpatrick. >> correct. mj surge here. >> five minutes away. >> inspired a unique sense of civic responsibility this week as a civilian carrying a south carolina state flag spotted mowing the lawn outside which d.c.. >> the lincoln memorial. >> you got to get those twitter answers faster. rick scott is losing by 4 points in a hypothetical matchup against what party switching former governor. >> oh, christie. oh. >> lawrence. >> that guy whose name i'm forgetting now, charlie kris. >> charlie kris is correct. on the board. that was the end of the round, be i the way. >> we are told not to hit the button. >> end of the 1st round. mj 200, lawrence o'donnell 100, todd zero. we move ahead to the second round. >> i got one. >> you lost one earlier angus king. >> minus. >> laziness is for the reward. we will not make it. mj has 300 i am told. 100 for your honor lawrence o'donnell. we move onto the

that will include remarks by house speaker john boehner and south carolina senator tim scott. at five at 7:30 eastern. >> the courtship of bess wallace and harry truman began here, at her home in independence, missouri. >> when my grandfather visited independence, which was 26 miles from where he lived, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house, which is where his aunt and two cousins lived. one afternoon, he was over there with his cousins and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great-grandmother madge gates had given the hurricane and mrs. nolan had cleaned the cake plate and was asking if anyone would take it back over. my grandfather moved with what once called something approaching the speed of light, grabbed the cake plate and ran over your and rang the bell on the front or in the hope that my grandmother would answer the door and she did. that'sited him in, and the beginning of their formal courtship in 1910. >> bess truman, as we consider -- as we continue our series on first ladies, tonight on c-span, c-span3 and on c-span radio and www.c-span.org. >>

ladies and gentlemen, these welcome to the podium, senator tim scott. ♪ ♪ >> thank you very much.mily research council. we are in good company this morning. went to preach -- i tell you what. i am getting kind of excited over here. over here. can i get an amen? you got to realize, my momma wanted a preacher and she got a politician. so, let us pray. there is a song that i think is so important. you familiar with the words amazing grace? i once was lost but now i am found, i was blind, but now i see. i think the lord he saved my soul -- yes, he saved a soul like me. those words never meant more to me than on september 22, 1983. i was on a little college football's college and they had something called the fellowship of christian athletes. [applause] this young man named john rickenbaher gave an altar call and i remember walking down the aisle. i got on my knees. as a person who is so selfish. but when i rose back up, the lord had become the master of my life. [applause] and i have never been the same. i have never been the same. i have news for all of us, god is not finished with m

senator tim scott joins us. good evening, sir. >> thank you, greta. thank you for having me back. >> nice to have you. well, she will be testifying apparently this the house of representatives but your thoughts on secretary sebelius? they have been trying to get her to testify for some time. >> it's really time for her to take a stand and explain to the american people how this disaster could be so bad. it's as if she spent all of her time for looking for ways to market obama care. asking insurance companies to participate in spending money to market obama care yet we didn't have enough time focusing on how to get the opportunity to apply for obama care online. listen, the iphone cost $150 million to produce something. we spent over $400 million for a web site that doesn't work. and you can't say there is a glitch. we need to ask very specific questions and very simple questions. what's wrong? how do you fix it? how long will it take? we are talking about one sixth of the economy. now being in the hands of folks who spent $400 million simply for a web

with house speaker john aynor and tim scott. begins on c-span 3. >> the courtship of beth wallace and harry truman began here at her home in independence, missouri. >> when my grandfather visited independence, this is in 1910, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house which is where his aunt and his two cousins lived. one afternoon he was over there with his cousins and the family and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great-grandmother madge gates wallace had given her a cake and mrs. non-had cleaned the cake plate and asked if anyone would take it back. moved at ther speed of light, grabbed a plate and came over here and rang the bell in the hope that my grandmother would answer the door and she did. she invited him in and that is the beginning of their courtship in 1910. >> beth truman as we continue .ur series on first ladies the remarks from former secretary of state hillary clinton. she spoke recently at a center for american progress conference. [applause] birthday.appy it is exciting for me to come at th

senators flake and ber owe sa and tim scott said it's too early to decide. paying federal workers who got furloughed because of the shutdown, shouldn't this be easy to decide? >> i was working in the clinton administration during the last shutdown, i was barely making enough money as it was to pay my rent and do what i needed to do. and luckily, we got, we were able to get paid for that time. there are people who literally, they are living month to month on, you know, very little money. when you talk about -- >> check to check. >> check to check. and when you talk about not getting paid back that money that you lost. >> congressman, can you brief they're talking about it's too early to decide whether people should get the money even after? >> well, now this is sick. i usually try not to get upset. this is sick when you participate in self-mute illization. and these people through no fault of their own have been laid off, and they are struggling, even when they're here. contrary to the myth that people have been pushing out about government workers, nobody's

more with tim scott who is at the white house today. first to former

i was actually eating dinner with tim scott and jason chafitz. we still had time to finish our meal. that's what passes for discussion and debate in this town. in one hour we vote yes and the senate votes no. >> it is now going back to you from the senate as a clean c.r. the only issue coming back is funding the government for six weeks. not even very long. so if it comes back, if the house leadership takes out of it defunding obamacare or this whole special treatment for capitol hill could you vote yes and accept that or not? >> no, ma'am. we wanted a full defunding of obamacare and not for political victories. i haven't had a single constituent say the affordable care act is working for them. score s have said it's cost them a job or hours. we started with a de-fund. negotiating with ourselves because the president is too ease biz si to talk. we went ebb from defund to delay. he still won't talk. we said, well, just treat everybody equally under the law. do away with the individual mandate like you did for the employer mandate. >> or make corpo

context, graham's unfavorables in the state are 30 points higher than its fellow senate republican tim scott. needing to turn around his numbers, graham is turning back to benghazi. >> we're just beginning on benghazi. and to the families, we're not going to let this go. >> lindsey graham is just doing what the modern gop does best, using political feeder to placate the base and leaving the american people with the damage. >> talk about benghazi. >> graham is going to block important, substantive nominations so he can win his primary. did you want someone to run the federal reserve, the world's most important economic body? well, sorry, benghazi. >> i haven't forgotten about benghazi. >> did you want someone to run the department of homeland security? that can't happen because benghazi. >> what happened in benghazi. >> did you want an undersecretary for nuclear security? >> we haven't heard from one person in benghazi. benghazi. benghazi. benghazi. benghazi. >> you mentioned benghazi. >> yeah. >> america's news may not be secure, but at least lindsey graham will be re-elected. >> this admini

new jersey democrat becomes the second african-american the other is tim scott.r booker is serving out the rest of the term of the late senator frank lautenberg and now to utah and the murder trial of dr. martin mcneil. is he accused of drugging and drowning his wife in the bathtub. defense says she died of heart disease. medical examiner taking the standed to grey testifying that michelle macneill may have died with drug toxicity combined with heart disease. he is not saying she drowned but it is possible. denying a town's attempt to shut down a hot sauce factory. the town wanted the factory to stop production since saying it was emitting stinky fumes pepper and garlic. the drug rejected that request. the hot sauce company says it is working with the city to reduce the smell. finally sponge bob sponge bob square pans spng bob get the act? so his boss can save the whole nickel that's tonight's speed read. now, brace yourself for this one. the agency that is implementing obama care paid out $23 million for dead people. you heard right. according to a new inspector

. >> greta: now to senator tim scott. he joins us. nice to he see you, senator. >> good to be with you, thank you. >> greta: senator, your thought that the fact that the military. >> this is disgraceful. i have two brothers still active duty military today one is in the air force and one command sergeant in the army. i have got to tell you these guys put their lives on the line. for this government, our government to say to them that we don't have the resources, remarkable. our president's response to be so flippant in the interview today, listen to jay carney talk about our soldiers, our folks putting their lives on the line. it struck a cord with me personally. this morning in the officer of congressman jeff duncan we had the father of a private first class officer who on capitol hill today, his son 20 years old. married three months. died in afghanistan. about six months ago. he is sitting there with us and we are having this conversation and then to watch this drama play out today in front of those men and women who are putting th

the government shut down, ted cruz, mike enze, ron johnson, dean heller, pat roberts, marco rubio, tim scott, richard shelby, pat toomey, and david vitter. 18 no votes, but those 18 senators saying no was not enough to stop the rescue plans from going forward. to now the -- so now, the plan goes to the house, which mean there is is still a lot of work. now obviously, all of those no-vote senators were republicans, all 18 of them. and of course the whole deal started when the republicans in the house hatched a plan, right, sure, they had voted 30, 40, okay more than 40 times to repeal the health care reform law, to repeal obama care. more than 40 times. but it never mattered. they kept voting over and over and over dozens of times to repeal obama care in the how long. but everybody ignored them. so then this whole thing started when republicans hatched a plan. please explain the plan. >> i believe that this is our time. this is when it really matters. yes, we voted to repeal obama care 30 to 40 times, but this is when it really counts. this is when it is time to put up or shut up. >> 40, 30,

county sheriff detective tim miley and dolores scott led the cold case investigation.id you know what you were getting into when you first started this investigation? >> no, we had no idea how bad it was, how difficult it was going to get. >> it took four years, four years of our lives, right? >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: the detectives had to determine exactly how john sohus died. the problem was, all they had to work with was the victim's skull, and it was in pieces and had to be reconstructed by a special lab in hawaii. >> this is where the facial bones would be, but we never know... >> reporter: that's when forensic pathologist dr. frank sheridan was finally able to determine how john sohus had died he had been viciously bludgeoned. how do you know that? how can you tell? >> partly, it's based on looking at the edges of the fractures, the dark appearance. >> reporter: dark edges, says dr. sheridan, mean a fracture has occurred at the time of death, and not when the body was unearthed. >> the decomposing scalp, blood, sinks down into the fracture lines. and that's on

bill: this issue hits especially close to home the republican senator tim scott out of south carolinars serving on active duty. he talked about encounter with a family of a fallen soldier with greta van susteren. >> this morning in the congressman of jeff duncan we had private first class austin, on capitol hill, his son, 20 years old, married three months, died in afghanistan six months ago. he is sitting with us having this conversation, to watch the drama play out today in front of men and women putting their lives on the line. it is disgraceful. i can't understand it. bill: we've been asking to you tweet us about the death benefit controversy. some writing the following, if the point was to solve problems why didn't the white house order benefits to be given? here is another, i think death benefits for our soldiers shut off is disgrace. i'm a disabled vet van and i might not get my disability pay. keep them coming. tell what you think. @billhemmer, @marthamaccallum. we'll read a lot of those a lit later this hour as well. martha: a lot of people symbolic of a president has a coupl

republican senators mike lee, ted cruz, rand paul, marco rubio, and tim scott spoke of the conference. this is two hours. >> good morning. welcome to the eighth annual values voter summit. the government might be shut down, but the values voter summit is open and we're ready to do business. you might have noticed it is not a shutdown, but a slowdown what is a slowdown? it is like being in a perpetual tsa line. [laughter] no one seems to be moving, but you still have to empty your pockets. [laughter] [applause] the president's barricades might have prevented vacationing families from touring our nations parks. you might have used those barricades to try to keep our veterans from visiting memorials that their courage and sacrifice inspired. he has used his barricade to try to keep our voices down in america. it is about time we let him know no one is going to keep the voice of the american people from being heard in our nation today. [applause] i suggest that we start our values voter summit by removing these barricades. the best thing to do is to remove these barricades off of the stag

welcome to the podium, senator tim scott. ♪ don't stop believing hold on the that feeling ♪ >> thankyou very much. thank you to the family research council. what, we're in good company this morning. y'all make me want to preach. i tell you what. i'm getting kind of excited over here! how about over here. can i get an amen! all right. mama ve to realize my wanted a preacher, she got a politician. pray. us you know, there is a song that i think is so important. y'all familiar with the grace"?f "amazing i once was lost but now i'm found. i was blind, but now i see. thank the lord he saved my soul, yes, he saved a soul like me. those words never meant more to than on september 22, 1983. was on a little college football scholarship at presbytarian college and they had this thing called the fca -- fellowship of christian athletes. [ applause ] this young man named john rickenbatcher, j.r., he gave an call. i walked down the aisle, got on so nees as a person who is selfish, but when i rose back up, the lord has become the life. of my [ applause ] and i have never been the same. i have never

hour we will hear from five senators, they include marco rubio, ted cruz, rand paul, mike lee and tim scott. once they speak here, though, they will head straight to the white house for talks with president obama. if there ever was a political dynamic john there is an amazing one seen out today. >> who kay rns the most juice, senator ted cruz or john boehner as the leader of the republican party? >> is it says something john boehner is not speaking at the summit and ted cruz is, again he'll be speaking in probably about another 30 or 40 minutes but expecting to get a hero's welcome. is he one many folks about 2,000 from across the country have come here to hear the likes from ted cruz to talk about fighting against washington. i spoke to one of ted cruz's advisers last night, they said expect him to talk about the grassroots and how washington shouldn't have all the answers and does not have all the power to do things and that there will be a message sent out today if the grassroots and if conservatives want to take back their government they need to have their voices heard, expect to hear

values voters summit begins this morning with speeches by senators mike lee, ted cruz, rand paul and tim scott as well as representative michelle back match. you can see that live on c-span3 at 9 a.m. eastern. >> the senate banking committee examined the implications of the u.s. defaulting on its financial obligations in a hearing on thursday. frank keating, former oklahoma governor and current president of the american banking association, and former congressman ken bentsen spoke about the risk of a deeper recession. here's a look. you can see this in its swirety on our -- entirety on our web site, c-span.org. >> well, as noted by my fellow panel cysts, if the united states -- panelists, if the united states defaults on its debts a little bit or a lot, it's calamitous. and we have to think in perspective of what has occurred over the course of the last number of years. from 389 when -- 1789 when george washington became president to the year 2000 the national debt was $5 trillion. the bipartisan policy center, our rivlin-domenici panel, between 2000 and 2009 that national debt roughly doubled

looking at senators who were appointed rather than elected, like current south carolina republican tim scotts every african-american u.s. senator that has ever served or been elected. once sworn in, cory booker will make nine total african-american u.s. senators ever as pbs pinchback you see in this graphic won election but never served. shortly after his win, he received a congratulatory call from the last man to be elected to the u.s. senate, president barack obama. and even if obserbservers can't resist making comparison, booker has made it clear he opportunity want to be thought of as a black senator. watching cory booker navigate the politics of race in america is instructive for a new generation of african-american elected officials. linda carr is co-founder of higher heights for america. a andra, you wrote the book about cory booker, the new black politician. how does the election of mayor booker to senator booker tell us? what does it tell us about where we are right now? >> in many ways it value dates the use of deracialization or de-emphasizing race in order to get elected. he was

with house speaker john boehner and south carolina senator tim scott are among the expected participants. past recipients include wisconsin congressman paul ryan and florida senator marco rubio. our live coverage begins at 7:30 p.m. eastern over on c-span3. >> the courtship of bess wallace and harry truman began here at her home in independence, missouri. >> when my grandfather visited independence, which is 26 miles from where he lived at the time in grandview, this was in 1910, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house which is where his aunt and his two cousins lived. and one afternoon he was over there with his cousins, with the family, and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great grandmother, madge gates wallace, had given her a cake, and mrs. nolan had cleaned the cake plate and was asking if anybody would take it back over. and my grandfather moved with what my mother once described as something approaching the speed of light and grabbed the cake plate and ran over here and rang the bell on the front bell in the hope, of course, that my grandmother would answer th

senator tim scott has a bad feeling about this. he thinks it's been a failure so far a worst is yet to come. >> the reality of it is this is an absolute failure. you don't spend $400 million on a website that people, no matter how many are trying to log on, you should be able to log on. my great fear, however, is this is just a website. we haven't started having a conversation about the provision of health care, about paying claims, on making sure that all the pieces fit together after 15 years in the insurance industry, i will tell you that the reality of it is this, if it's hard on the front end, it's going to be really painful when we get the pain of having to take care of claims, having to take care of people. this is a real challenge. if it is this bad now, i fear the worst is still to come. >> and we can't log in. they said that should be the easiest to fix. these software experts say there are five million lines of software that have to be rewritten. they did trial runs right before it launched and they all failed. the glitc

one of the small businesses was surf side bagels in rockaway beach in new york owned by scott edwards and tim keenan. is suffered flooding and it pretty much destroyed their store. we brought in our makeover team to help them get become on their feet, turning this terrible time into a time to rebuild their business into something better than it was before the storm. we helped them with the new men row designs and they took the suggestion and offered a customer loyalty program and hooked up with a fooder delivery service. we are happy to say all of this resulted in a 15% increase in revenue since the summer with a much more consistent flow of customers and they are not alone. with the great strides, other businesses destroyed by the storm have reopened as well. on this one-year mark, we wish all of the small business victims of sandy good look and best wishes. how do you protect your small business and customers when your business plan includes sledge hammers and broken glass? it's tough for those making anger her business. >> when you go in and that door closes and you hit your first item, so

scott sheffield and tim were doing a great -- are doing a great job there.ies most sophisticated technological clients. we are helping them in the basin and also in the eagleford. now, when you look at applied technology as you mentioned we are going to help them produce more oil and gas every day but more importantly, we are going to apply the technology so we cover more amounts of oil from that reservoir over the life of the reservoir. >> now, i understand that this -- this may be it. you did come on once and last time because i was telling you i thought it would be big. you said there might be something else big or even bigger. is this possibly the second largest oil field in the world? >> that is correct, jim. it is only behind -- only behind the guar field in saudi arabia which had about 160 billion barrels much recoverable oil. if we look at the trends together those can produce over 50 billion barrels of recoverable oil. it is a giant oil field. second largest in the world. >> you basically -- it is your technology that -- that made us figure out that

the ceremony will include remarks i john boehner and south carolina senator tim scott.anve at 7:30 3. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. record votes on postponed questions will be taken later. for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama sook recognition? -- seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 3304. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 3304, a bill to authorize and request the president to award the medal of honor to bennie g. adkins and donald p. sloat of the united states army for acts of valor during the vietnam conflict and to authorize the award of the medal of honor to certain other eterans. e speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from alabama, mr. rogers, and the gentlewoman from guam, ms. bordallo, ea